Music Box 27th December 2025

Our Plastic Dream was one of Pierre Tubb's bands from the swinging London of the mid-to-late 1960s. It came out of The Jeeps, as a result of wishing to keep up with the psychedelic mood of the time. This is the originally unreleased Someone Turned The Light Out from 1967, which can be found on compilations  Pierre's Plastic Dream - The Garage Tapes, England 1966-1968 (Market Square 1999), specifically for Pierre Tubb's work, and the excellent 1967 sampler Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 (Grapefruit 3XCD set 2016), which I have.

Quilt are a four-piece psychedelic indie rock band from Boston consisting of Anna Fox Rochinski (vocals/guitars), Shane Butler (vocals/guitars), Keven Lareau (vocals/bass) and John Andrews (vocals/drums). The band writes collaboratively and share vocal duties. They were born out of a local improv scene, and combine elements of folk-rock, psychedelia and dream pop. There also one of my favourite modern bands, along with Baltimore's Wye Oak, both bands whom I discovered at the same time. Here's my fan video for As We Follow, the B-side only release to their third single, the awesome Arctic Shark (Mexican Summer 7" 2013)

Next up, one of my favourite songs by The Rolling Stones, the Elizabethan ballad of Lady Jane, enhanced by Brian Jones' dulcimer and Jack Nitzsche's harpsicord. From their fourth UK LP, and their first of all original material, Aftermath (Decca 1966)

We conclude with the last original that The Beatles covered, Larry Williams eighth single Bad Boy (Specialty 7" 1958)

And speaking of The Beatles, let's conclude the year with their film versions of the single Hey Jude c/w Revolution (Apple 7" 1968), their first release on their own label. These versions are not exactly the ones released on the record. The first is  a promotional film using the single's music track but with live vocals (the shoo-bi-doo-wops come from the earlier version released on The White Album as Revolution 1), including Paul's awesome scream. Hey Jude was also recorded at Twickenham Studios, with David Frost introducing (leading to erroneous claims that it comes from David Frost's TV show though it was premiered on his Frost on Sunday show). Again the backing is mimed and comes from the single but with Paul's live vocals. The use of live vocals was to circumvent the Musician Union's increasingly irrelevant rules on live music, a hangover from the big band era and not particularly suitable for the modern rock band era. Until next year ...